31 Bible Verses about Being Single

To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are.

I would like all men to be as I am. However, everyone is endowed by God in his own way; he has a gift for the one life or the other.

Still, if they cannot restrain themselves, let them marry. Better marry than be aflame with passion!

I mean, brothers, ??the interval has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

I want you to be free from all anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's affairs, how best to satisfy the Lord;

the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy his wife ??34 so he is torn in two directions. The unmarried woman or the maid is also anxious about the Lord's affairs, how to be consecrated, body and spirit; once married, she is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy her husband.

Now about the questions in your letter. It is an excellent thing for a man to have no intercourse with a woman;

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

The eye is the lamp of the body: so, if your Eye is generous, the whole of your body will be illumined,

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

Are you tied to a wife? Never try to untie the knot. Are you free? Never try to get married.

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ.

For married people these are my instructions (and they are the Lord's, not mine). A wife is not to separate from her husband ??11 if she has separated, she must either remain single or be reconciled to him ??and a husband must not put away his wife.

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's position with his wife, there is no good in marrying."

However, she is happier if she remains as she is; that is my opinion ??and I suppose I have the Spirit of God as well as other people!

I have no orders from the Lord for unmarried women, but I will give you the opinion of one whom you can trust, after all the Lord's mercy to him.

No one under sixty is to be put on the church's list of widows; and she must have been only once married,

There are eunuchs who have been eunuchs from their birth, there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Realm of heaven. Let anyone practice it for whom it is practicable."

I pray you to give me the utter joy of knowing you are living in harmony, with the same feelings of love, with one heart and soul,

Your eye is the lamp of the body: when your eye is sound, then the whole of your body has light, but if your eye is diseased, then your body is darkened.

And all this splendour gone in one brief hour!' And all shipmasters and sea-faring folk, sailors and all whose business lies upon the sea, stood far off

Well, what I think is this: that, considering the imminent distress in these days, it would be an excellent plan for you to remain just as you are.

I am saying this in your own interests. Not that I want to restrict your freedom. It is only to secure decorum and concentration upon a life of devotion to the Lord.

but not a hair of your head will perish.

For the entire Law is summed up in one word, in You must love your neighbour as yourself

The twelve gates are twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl; and the streets of the City are pure gold, clear as crystal.

Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,

He said to them, "True, but this truth is not practicable for everyone, it is only for those who have the gift.